Tesla proponents love to remind people how their vehicles are ‘carbon free’ (in spite of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s own carbon profligate lifestyle):
Fact: the Tesla Model S is an environmentally friendly, zero emissions electric vehicle that won’t pollute the air like gas-powered cars. Carbon emissions from a gas car’s tailpipe has a dangerous impact on global warming…. In addition, Tesla CEO Elon Musk explains that, ‘combustion cars emit toxic gases. According to an MIT study, there are 53,000 deaths per year in the U. S. alone from auto emissions.’
But in reminding people about how they don’t burn fossil fuels, they make sure to omit and/or obfuscate all the other emissions-laden factors that go into production of Tesla automobiles, including the oft-unspoken costs of the vehicles to the taxpayer and to other auto manufacturers.
Start with the power source for the Tesla; their electric power plant uses lithium-ion batteries to store the electricity required to run the car. And while a good amount of lithium is produced at salt lake brines that use chemical processes to extract the requisite lithium…
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Aug 10, 2017.
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